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CURRICULUM VITA

DOUGLAS HARTMANN

Department of Sociology

University of Minnesota

909 Social Science Tower

Minneapolis, MN 55455

(612) 624-0835 / hartm021@umn.edu

Present Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; University of Minnesota (2003- )

Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota (2006- )

Co-Editor, Contexts, American Sociological Association (2008- )

Affiliations / Adjunct Appointments at Minnesota:

• Departments of American Studies and African American & African Studies

• Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change

• Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport

• Life Course Center

Previous Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota 1997-2003

Associate-In (Instructor), Department of Sociology, UC, San Diego 1995-1997

Education

University of California, San Diego Ph.D. (Sociology) 1997

University of California, San Diego C.Phil / MA (Sociology) 1994

University of Chicago M.A. (Social Sciences) 1990

University of Chicago A.B. (History) 1989

Honors and Awards

2008 Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award, Midwest Sociological Society

2006 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Science Section, American Sociological Association

2006 National Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy, Network Affiliate

2005 Honorable Mention, Best Book Award, North American Society for Sport History

2004 Honorable Mention, Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

2004-05 Faculty Sabbatical Supplement, University of Minnesota

2001 Postgraduate Research Grant Fellowship, Olympic Museum Studies Center, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Lausanne, Switzerland

2000 Graduate Student Faculty Mentoring Award, University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology

1996 Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

1990-94 San Diego Humanities Fellowship, University of California, San Diego

RESEARCH AND WRITING

Publications

Books

2007. Ethnicity and Race, Second Edition: Making Identities in a Changing World. (equally co-authored with Stephen Cornell.) Pine Forge Press: Thousand Oaks, CA.

2003. Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1998. Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. (equally co-authored with Stephen Cornell.) Pine Forge Press: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Edited Volumes

2008. Contexts. (Co-editor with Christopher Uggen). Volume 7, Numbers 1-4.

1999. “Rethinking Race, Troubling Empiricism.” Critica: A Journal of Critical Studies. Edited and introduced (equally co-edited with Roderick A. Ferguson). University of California, San Diego: Critica Monograph Series. Spring Volume.

Refereed Articles (* Graduate Student Collaborator; † Undergraduate Collaborator)

Forthcoming. “An Empirical Assessment of Whiteness Theory: Hidden from How Many?” (with Paul Croll and Joseph Gerteis). Social Problems.

Forthcoming. “Activism, Organizing, and the Symbolic Power of Sport: Reassessing Harry Edwards’s Contributions to the 1968 Olympic Protest Movement.” Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletics in Education.

2008. “Critical Whiteness Theories and the Evangelical ‘Race Problem’: Extending Emerson and Smith’s Divided by Faith.” (second author with Eric Tranby*). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 47(3): 341-359.

2007. “Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of ‘Happy Talk.’” (equally co-authored with Joyce Bell*). American Sociological Review, 72: 895-914.

2007. “Re-Assessing High School Sports Participation and Deviance in Early Adulthood: Evidence of Enduring, Bifurcated Effects.” (lead author with Michael Massoglia*), The Sociological Quarterly, 48: 485-505.

2007. “Midnight Basketball and the 1994 Crime Bill Debates: The Operation of a Racial Code.” (equally co-authored with Darren Wheelock*). The Sociological Quarterly, 48: 315-342.

2007. “Rush Limbaugh, Donovan McNabb, and ‘A Little Social Concern:’ Reflections on the Problems of Whiteness in Contemporary American Sport.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 31: 45-60.

2006. “Atheists as ‘Other’: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in America.” (third author with Penny Edgell and Joseph Gerteis). American Sociological Review, 71: 211-234.

2006. “Re-Thinking Sports-Based Community Crime Prevention: A Preliminary Analysis of the Relationships between Midnight Basketball and Urban Crime Rates.” (lead author with Brooks Depro*). Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 30: 180-196.

2005. “One (Multicultural) Nation Under God? Changing Uses and Meanings of the Term ‘Judeo-Christian” in the American Media. (lead author with Xeufeng Zhang* and William Wischstadt †). Journal of Media and Religion, 4 (4): 207-234.

2005. “Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms.” (lead author with Joseph Gerteis). Sociological Theory, 23: 218-240.

2003. “The Race Relations ‘Problematic’ in American Sociology: Revisiting Niemonen’s Case Study and Critique.” (lead author with Paul Croll* and Katja Guenther*) The American Sociologist, Fall: 20-50.

2003. “The Sanctity of Sunday Afternoon Football: Why Men Love Sports.” Contexts, 2 (4): 13-21 (cover story).

[Reprinted: The Contexts Reader. 2008. Edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Wm. Norton and Company. New York. Pp. 232-238.]

2003. “Theorizing Sport as Social Intervention: A View from the Grassroots.” Quest, 55, 2: 118-140.

2003. “What Can We Learn From Sport if We Take Sport Seriously as a Racial Force? Lessons from C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26, 3: 451-483.

2001. “Notes on Midnight Basketball and the Cultural Politics of Recreation, Race and At-Risk Urban Youth.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 25: 339-372.

2000. “Rethinking the Relationships between Sport and Race in American Culture: Golden Ghettos and Contested Terrain.” Sociology of Sport Journal, 17: 229-253.

1999. “Toward a Race-Critical Sociology.” Critica: A Journal of Critical Studies. University of California, San Diego Critica Monograph Series. Spring: 21-32.

1996. “The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19: 548-566.

[Reprinted in revised form in Practicing Inequalities: Critical Inquiries. 1998. Edited by Judith Howard and Jodi O’Brien. London: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 337-359.]

Book Chapters / Invited Contributions

Forthcoming. “Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon.” (second author with Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Jeylan Mortimer). MacArthur Foundation, Transitions to Adulthood Research Network, Qualitative Volume, edited by Mary Waters, Jennifer Holdaway, Maria Kefalas, and Patrick Carr.

2009. “Re-Claiming the Sociological Imagination: A Brief Overview and Guide.” In Bureaucratic Culture and Basic Social Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination, edited by Bernard Phillips. Paradigm Publishing.

2008. “Whiteness, Measuring.” (with Paul R. Croll*). Pp. 1398-1401 in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by Richard T. Shaefer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2007. “The New Adulthood? The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults.” (equally co-authored with Teresa Toguchi Swartz). Pp. 255-289 in Constructing Adulthood: Agency and Subjectivity in the Life Course, Advances in Life Course Research Volume 11, edited by Ross Macmillan. Elsevier/JAI Press.

2006. “Bound by Blackness or Above It? Michael Jordan and the Paradoxes of Post-Civil Rights American Race Relations.” Pp. 301-324 in Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes, edited by David K. Wiggins. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.

2005. “Community.” Pp. 359-365 in Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport, edited by David Levinson and Karen Christensen. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.

2004. “Conceptual Confusions and Divides: Race, Ethnicity and the Study of Immigration.” (equally co-authored with Stephen Cornell.) Pp. 23-41 in Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2002. “Sport as Prevention? Minneapolis’s Experiment with Late-Night Basketball.” (lead author with Darren Wheelock*) CURA [Center for Urban and Regional Affairs] Reporter, 32 (3, Spring): 13-17.

2002. “Sport as Contested Terrain.” Pp. 405-415 in Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, edited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos. Oxford: Blackwell.

2000. “Race, Culture, and the Case of Sport.” Culture, 14 (2, Winter): 1-6.

Scholarly Book Reviews

Forthcoming. Living Through the Hoops: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream by Reuben A. Buford May. (New York: New York University Press, 2007). Sociological Forum.

Forthcoming. Collective Identities in Action: A Sociological Approach to Ethnicity by Klaus Eder, Bernd Giesen, Oliver Schmidtke, and Damian Tambini. (Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002). Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

2006. Over the Edge: How the Pursuit of Youth by Marketers and the Media Has Changed American Culture by Leo Bogart. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005). Contemporary Sociology, 35(4): 392-393.

2005. Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loic Wacquant. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press). Social Forces, 84, 1 (September): 603-605.

2004. Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies edited by Richard Schweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002). Social Forces, 82, 4 (June): 1663-1665.

2004. Jews and the Olympic Games—Sport: A Springboard for Minorities by Paul Yogi Mayer. (London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28, 2 (March): 382-383.

2004. The Nazi Olympics: Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s, edited by Arnd Kruger and William Murray (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27, 5 (September): 849-850.

2003. Global Games by Maarten Van Bottenburg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26, 1 (January): 184-185.

2002. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000). Contemporary Sociology, 31, 1: 11-12.

2001. Racism by Albert Memmi; translated and with an introduction by Steve Martinot. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Contemporary Sociology, 20, 6 (November): 569-570

2001. Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League by Charles K. Ross. (New York: New York University Press, 1999). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24, 2 (March): 353-354.

1999. Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States, by Mark Nathan Cohen (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998). American Quarterly, 39 (1): 147-149.

1999. The Order of Rituals: The Interpretation of Everyday Life, by Hans-Georg Soeffner (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1997). Social Forces, 77, 4 (June): 1691-1693.

1998. Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race, by John Hoberman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997). “Review Symposium.” International Journal of the Sociology of Sport, 33, 1 (March): 89-92.

Technical Reports and Other Academic Writing

2008. “High School Sports Participation and Educational Attainment: Recognizing, Assessing, and Exploiting the Relationship.” Report prepared for the LA ’84 Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, January, 33 pps.

2007. Sociograph: Sociologists of Minnesota Newsletter, 25 (1-3).

2004. “Letters: Real Men, Real Boys” (Response). Contexts, 3, 1 (Winter): 5-6.

2003. Telephone Survey Instrument on Race, Religion and Diversity in Contemporary American Society. For American Mosaic Project in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center. (Administered June-July).

1988. “The Chicago Public School Senior Survey: Student Perception and High School Reality.” Metropolitan Opportunity Project directed by Gary Orfield, Working Paper Number 14 (Summer).

Work-in-Progress

Manuscripts and Papers Under Review

“The Lasting and Variable Effects of Incarceration on Mental Health: Where Whiteness is Not a Privilege.” (with Michael Massoglia). Resubmit, American Sociological Review.

“The Possibilities and Problems of Diversity: How Americans Understand its Multiple Meanings.” (with Joe Gerteis and Penny Edgell). To be submitted, Social Forces.

“Ethnic and Racial Identity among Young Adult Immigrant Americans: Diverse, Evolving Conceptions and their Societal and Theoretical Implications.” (with Arturo Baiocchi). Under review, qualitative life course volume.

Unpublished Papers and Manuscripts in Preparation

Midnight Basketball: Race and the Realities of Sport-Based Crime Prevention. Book proposal and selected chapters. Under contract, University of Chicago Press.

Inside the Frontiers of Adulthood: How Young Adults Understand and Navigate Their Lives. Edited book proposal (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Ruben Rumbaut). Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy.

“Segmented Assimilation in Intergenerational Perspective: The Changing Conceptions of Hmong Young Adults and their Parents.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Pao Lee). To be submitted, American Journal of Sociology.

“A Tale of Two Boycotts: Race, Rights, and the International Olympic Committee, 1968 and Beyond.” To be submitted, International Journal of the History of Sport.

“Before the ‘Revolt:’ African American Athletic Activism, 1954-1963.” (with Melissa Weiner*). Under review, Social History.

“Sport’s Contribution to the ‘War on Poverty’: The Story behind the NCAA’s National Youth Sports Program.”

Presentations (since 2003)

2009

“Barack Obama, Michael Jordan, and the Complexities of Blackness in 21st Century American Culture.” 3rd Annual Torstenson Lecture, Department of Sociology, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, April.

2008

“The 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement: Domestic Roots, International Reverberations.” Conference Keynote, “1968: The Global Student Revolution,” Grinnell College, October.

“Nationalism, Humanism, and Globalization in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.” With Chris Isett. Global Race, Ethnicity and Migration (GREM) Lecture Series, University of Minnesota, September.

“Racial and Ethnic Identities among Immigrant American Young Adults.” With Arturo Biaocchi and Teresa Swartz, American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Boston, August.

“At the Intersections of the Olympic Games, Protest, and Human Rights.” Keynote Panelist/Presenter, “Deconstructing Sport” Conference, Brown University, April.

“Contexts Townhall Meeting.” Annual Meetings, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, MO, March.

“Humanism Instead of Human Rights? The Challenge of Beijing 2008 to Olympic Idealism.” University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology, Workshop Series, February.

2007

“Humanism Instead of Human Rights? The Challenge of Beijing 2008 to Olympic Idealism.” Annual Meetings, North American Society for the Study of Sport, Pittsburgh, November.

“The Racial Foundations of the Diversity Discourse.” Geography Coffee Hour Series, University of Minnesota, October.

“The Racial Underpinnings of the Diversity Discourse.” (with Joyce Bell). Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, New York, August.

“The Multiple Meanings of Diversity: How Americans Express its Possibilities and Problems.” (with Joseph Gerteis). Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, New York, August.

“The Meanings of Diversity: Bringing Some Data to Bear on Multicultural Theory.” (with Joseph Gerteis and Penny Edgell). Annual Meetings, Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, April.

“What’s New about Neo-Assimilation Theory?” Informal Seminar Series, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.

“Segmented Assimilation, Qualitative Methods, and Popular Culture: The Case for Studying Hip Hop and Import Racing among Hmong Youth.” (with Pao Lee). University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology, Workshop Series, March.

“The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults: Findings from a New Battery of Intensive Interviews.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz). 3rd Annual Emerging Adulthood Conference, Tucson, AZ, February.

2006

“Public Sociology, Midwest Sociologists, and the Sociological Imagination.” Presidential Address, Sociologists of Minnesota/Wisconsin Sociological Association, Joint Annual Meetings, River Falls, WI, October.

“Engaged Sociology and the Capstone Course.” Sociologists of Minnesota/Wisconsin Sociological Association, Joint Annual Meetings, River Falls, WI, October.

“Putting Whiteness Theory to the Test: An Empirical Analysis of Core Propositions.” (with Paul Croll and Joseph Gerteis). American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Montreal, August.

“Theory-in-Process.” Regular Session Theory Panel. American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Montreal, August.

“Reclaiming the Sociological Imagination: Notes toward a Manifesto.” The Sociological Imagination Group, Mini-Conference, Montreal, August.

“Assessing the Costs of a "Costless Community:" The Attitudes and Opinions of White Ethnics in the United States.” (with Jason Torkelson and Joseph Gerteis). Midwest Sociological Society, Annual Meetings, Omaha, March.

“Re-Imagining the Sociological Imagination: A Manifesto for the Discipline.” Midwest Sociological Society, Annual Meetings, Omaha, March.

2005

“The New American Mosaic: Race, Religion and the Problematic Culture of Diversity in the United States.” American Studies Department Series, University of Minnesota, November.

“Atheists as ‘Other’: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in America.” (with Penny Edgell and Joseph Gerteis). American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, August.

“Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Jeylan Mortimer). American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, August.

“Youth Sports as Risk Prevention: Lessons from a Multi-Method Study of Midnight Basketball.” Invited Conference Keynote, North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), Annual Meetings, Regina, Canada, June.

“Diversity in Two Dimensions: A Comparison of Attitudes about Race and Religion from a New National Survey.” (with Penny Edgell and Joseph Gerteis). Midwest Sociological Society, Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, March.

“The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults: Findings from a New Battery of Intensive Interviews.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz). Midwest Sociological Society, Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, March.

2004

“More Difficult than We Ever Imagined: The Unexpected Challenges of Integration in Sport and Society.” Panel presentation, Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Massachusetts, Amhert, November.

“A Tale of Two Boycotts: Race, Rights, and the International Olympic Committee, 1968 and Beyond.” Social Science History Association, Annual Meetings, Chicago, November.

“Analyzing American Attitudes about Diversity: Findings from a New Survey and Theoretical Model.” (with Joseph Gerteis). American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, San Francisco, August.

“Golden Ghettos and Contested Terrain: American Race Relations through the Lens of Sports.” Public Lecture, Georgia State University, March.

“Remapping Multiculturalism: Visions of Incorporation, Solidarity and Diversity.” (with Joseph Gerteis). University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology, Workshop Series, February.

2003

“Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Jeylan Mortimer). MacArthur Foundation, Transitions to Adulthood Qualitative Research Group, Philadelphia, December.

“A Tale of Two Boycotts: Race, Rights, and the IOC, 1968 and Beyond.” North American Society for the Study of Sport, Annual Meetings, Montreal, November.

“Religion, Racial Attitudes, and Anti-Semitism.” (with Penny Edgell). Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meetings, Norfolk, VA, October.

“One (Multicultural) Nation Under God? Changing Uses and Meanings of the Term ‘Judeo-Christian.” (with Xeufeng Zhang). Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meetings, Norfolk, VA, October.

“Hmong, American, and Twenty-something: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Preservation in Multigenerational Minnesota Families.” (with Teresa Swartz and Mai Vang). Sociologists of Minnesota, Annual Meetings, St. Paul, MN, October.

“’They Got Game:’ Race, Power, and Resistance in Basketball-Based Crime Prevention.” (with Darren Wheelock). Color Lines Conference, The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, Cambridge, August.

“Remapping Multiculturalism: Visions of Incorporation, Solidarity, Diversity.” (with Joseph Gerteis), Annual Sociological Meetings, Atlanta, August.

“Growing Up Hmong in St. Paul, Minnesota: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Preservation in Intergenerational Perspective.” (with Teresa Swartz and Mai Vang), American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Atlanta, August.

“Race, Resistance, and Power: Basketball as a Violence Prevention Program.” Department of Sociology, Bryn Mawr College, April.

“Race, Rights and the International Olympic Committee, Circa 1968.” University of Missouri, St. Louis, International Conference on the Olympic Games. March.

“’They Got Game:’ Race, Resistance and Power in a Basketball-Based Violence Prevention Program.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Capitalizing on Sport: America, Democracy and Everyday Life, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society.” February.

“Race, Sport and Educational Achievement: School Culture Effects.” (with Ross Macmillan). Life Course Center, University of Minnesota, February.

Grants, Funding and Other Awards

2009. Single Semester Leave. University of Minnesota. “The New American Mosaic: Race, Religion, and the Problematic Culture of Diversity.”    

2008. University of Minnesota, Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). $4000. “Women’s Hockey in Minnesota.” (with Heather McLaughlin).

2006-07. Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy. $25,000. Research Supplement. “Cross-Site Qualitative Volume.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz).

2006. Edelstein Family Foundation. $79,838. “American Mosaic Project” (graduate funding supplement). (with Joseph Gerteis and Penny Edgell).

2006. University of Minnesota, Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). $4000. “Deviance, Identity, and Popular Cultural Practices among Hmong Youth.” (with Pao Lee).

2005. University of Minnesota, Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). $4000. “How Americans Talk About Diversity: The Recognition of Difference and the Problem of Inequality.” (with Joyce Bell).

2004. Life Course Center, University of Minnesota, Research Assistance Support Grant. $5000. “Ethnic and Cultural Impacts on Family Formation among Young Adults in Contemporary America.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz).

2004. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on the Transition to Adulthood, Research Assistant Support. $20,000. “St. Paul Youth’s Subjective Transition from School to Work: Update and Extension.” Co-Principal Investigator with Jeylan Mortimer. University of Minnesota, Life Course Center.

2004. Edelstein Family Foundation, Research Grant. $517,000. “The American Mosaic Project: Religion, Race, and Community in the Contemporary United States.” Principal Investigator (with Joseph Gerteis).

2002. Undergraduate Research Partnership, University of Minnesota. $2850. “Growing Up Hmong in St. Paul, Minnesota: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Preservation in Intergenerational Perspective.” (with Mai Vang).

2002. University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. $5,000. “Midnight Basketball and the Cultural Politics of Risk and Race in the Contemporary U.S.”

2002. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on the Transition to Adulthood, Subcontracted Site Study. $40,000. “St. Paul Youth’s Subjective Transition from School to Work: Update and Extension.” Co-Principal Investigator with Jeylan Mortimer. University of Minnesota, Life Course Center.

2001-02. Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship. $8000. “Toward a Race-Critical Sociology.”

2001. “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth.” National Institute of Mental Health, Grant Application (YDS Renewal). Co-Investigator; Jeylan Mortimer, Principal Investigator. University of Minnesota.

2001. Single Semester Leave. University of Minnesota. “Midnight Basketball: The Cultural Politics of Race, Recreation and Crime in Contemporary America.”

2000. Life Course Center, University of Minnesota. Approx. $5000. “The Socioeconomic Consequences of High School Sports Participation: A Life Course Analysis.” (With Ross Macmillan).

1999-2000. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA). Approx. $25,000. “Basketball-Based

Social Outreach and Intervention Programs in the Twin Cities.”

1999. McKnight Summer Fellowship. $5000. “Golden Ghettos, Part II: Race, Sport and American Culture in the Aftermath of the 1968 African American Athletic Protest Movement.”

1999. University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. $5,000. “Golden Ghettos, Part II: Race, Sport and American Culture in the Aftermath of the 1968 African American Athletic Protest Movement.”

1999. President’s Faculty Multicultural Research Award. $6415. “Golden Ghettos, Part II: Race, Sport and American Culture in the Aftermath of the 1968 African American Athletic Protest Movement.”

1998-1999. Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Minnesota. Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship. $17,838. “Midnight Basketball: The Policies and Politics of Race, Recreation and Crime in the United States.”

1998. Life Course Center, University of Minnesota, $5040. “Midnight Basketball: The Policy and Politics of Race, Recreation and Public Intervention in the United States.”

TEACHING

Courses Taught

University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology

Graduate

Professionalization Seminar, 8001— Spring 2008

Sociological Research Methods (with Scott Eliason), 8801— Spring 2004; Spring 2006; Spring 2008

Racial Theories, 8211— Fall 2000; Fall 2003; Fall 2006

Contemporary Social Theory, 8702 –– Fall 1998

Field Research Practicum, 8817 –– Winter 1999

Field Research Practicum, 8818 –– Spring 1999

Special Topics Seminars

Race, Religion and the Meaning of America, 8290—Fall 2002

Contemporary Theory and Practice (with Barbara Laslett), 8090— Fall 2001

Advanced Topics in Contemporary Social Theory, 8790 –– Fall 1999

Contexts Workshop (with Chris Uggen)—Fall 2008, Spring 2009

Undergraduate

American Race Relations, 3211— Fall 2000; Spring 2000;

Spring 2002 (2 sections); Spring 2003; Fall 2003; Spring 2004; Spring 2006

American Race Relations, 1004 –– Fall 1998

Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class and Gender, 3251— Fall 1999

Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class and Gender, 3954 ––

Winter 1999; Spring 1998; Winter 1998

Advanced Projects Seminar: Research Version, 4966 — Spring 2000; Spring 2003

Advanced Projects Seminar: Engaged Capstone Version, 4966—Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009

Sport and Society, 4090—Fall 2005; Fall 2007

Beijing Olympics: Sports and Globalization in China (Institute for Global Studies, Study Abroad Course)—May Term 2007; 2008

University of California, San Diego, Department of Sociology (undergraduate only)

American Society, Spring 1997

Sociology of Culture, Fall 1996

Sport and Society—Spring 1996, Winter 1997

Popular Culture, Fall 1995

Graduate Mentoring and Advising at the University of Minnesota

• Member of over two dozen dissertation committees in sociology and other related disciplines, departments, and programs.

• Advisor or Co-Advisor to nine (9) Ph.D. candidates in Sociology: Ryan Alaniz; Arturo Baiocchi; Erica Busse; Meg Krausch; Heather McLaughlin; Sadie Pendaz; Amy Ronnkvist; Jefferson Swagerty; Sarah Whetstone.

Ph.D. Advisees (with current affiliations as available):

1. Amy Blackstone (2003)—University of Maine

2. Paul Croll (2008)—Augustana College

3. Tiffany Davis (2007)—Chicago State

4. Lao Lee (2008)—University of Wisconsin, River Falls

5. Melissa Weiner (2006)—Quinnipiac University

6. Darren Wheelock (2006)—Marquette University

7. Marcia Williams (2008)—Marquette University

8. Hui Niu Wilcox (2004)—College of St. Catherine’s

Other Ph.D. Examination Committees:

1. Hokulani Aikau (American Studies, 2005)—University of Hawaii, Manoa, PoliSci

2. Joyce Bell (2007)—University of Georgia

3. Vicki Brockman (1998)—Southwest Minnesota State University

4. Tacey Boucher (2002)

5. Sara Dorow (2002)—University of Alberta

6. Murat Ergin (2004)—Koc University (Istanbul, Turkey)

7. Steven Garabedian (American Studies, 2004)—George Mason University, History

8. Alexandra Goulding (2001)—Wilder Foundation (St. Paul, MN)

9. Peter Hennen (2002)—Ohio State University, Newark

10. Rebecca Hill (American Studies, 2000)—CUNY, History

11. Heidi Howarth (2000)—University of Minnesota, Eduation

12. Switbert Kamazima (2004)—Muhimbili University (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

13. Wendy Leo (2005)—Texas A & M University

14. Amy Miller (2001)—Science Museum of Minnesota

15. Tiffany Mueller (Geography, 2007)—MacAlaster College

16. Andrew Odubate (2007)—Bethel College

17. Lis Palmer (2000)

18. Sharon Preves (2000)—Hamline University

19. Leah Rogne (1999)—Minnesota State University, Mankato

20. Maura Rosenthal (Kinesiology, 2001)—Bridewater State College (MA)

21. Andrew Urban (History, 2008)—pending

22. Samuel Zalenga (2000)—Bethel College

23. Xeufeng Zhang (pending)—Westmont College (CA)

• Served on approximately 40 Master’s and Preliminary Examinations

Instructional Grants and Awards

2007. University of Minnesota, Office for Public Engagement. $5000. “Contexts.” (with Chris Uggen).

2006. University of Minnesota, Office for Public Engagement. $4958. “Sociology Beyond the University: Proposal to Support the Development of a New Capstone Course with a Focus on Public Sociology and Civic Engagement.” (with Ron Aminzade).

1999-2000. Bush Faculty Development Program on Excellence and Diversity in Teaching, University of Minnesota $4477. “Teaching Resources Center: A Diversity Resource for Sociologists.” (With Ron Aminzade)

1998-1999. Bush Faculty Development Program on Excellence and Diversity in Teaching, University of Minnesota, $4000. “Dealing with Diversity in the Curriculum and the Classroom: Some Suggestions for Sociologists.” (With Jennifer Pierce)

Other

• Co-taught MacArthur “Ways of Knowing Seminar” (DSSC 8211, with Barbara Frey, Human Rights Program), Spring 2004.

• Co-taught special seven-week topical workshop on “The Cultural Politics of Olympic Sport” with Mary Jo Kane (Kinesiology), for the MacArthur Program / Tucker Center, University of Minnesota, Fall 2000.

• Bush Faculty Development Program on Excellence and Diversity in Teaching, University of Minnesota, 1997-98.

• McNair Program, Faculty Mentor, Summer 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004.

• MacArthur Summer Honors “Pipeline” Program, Faculty Mentor Summer 1998, 1999, 2000

• Course Syllabi for “American Race Relations” (3211) and “Race, Class and Gender” (3251) both included in American Sociological Association Syllabi Collection Series.

SERVICE

Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Admissions and Awards (2002-03)

Associate Chair (2006-7; 07-08; 08-09)

Executive (1998-99 and 2005-06 [elected]; 2006-07; 07-08; 08-09)

External Review, Self-Study Coordinator (2007)

Graduate Affairs (1999-2000)

Personnel / Search (1997-98; 01-02; 03-04; 05-06; 06-07)

Committee Chair: 2003-04 (four hires); 06-07

Promotion, Tenure and Salary (1998-99; 08-09)

Teaching Resource Center (ad hoc: 1998-99, 99-00; 01-02)

Qualifying Review (1997-98; 99-00)

Undergraduate Affairs (2000-2001, 03-04)

College of Liberal Arts

American Studies

Admissions and Awards (2000-01)

Graduate Affairs (1998-99; 99-00)

Center for Advanced Studies, Ad Hoc Organizing Committee (2003-04)

Dean’s Executive Committee (2005-06)

Faculty Assembly (2005-07)

Vice-Chair (2005-06)

IDIM/ BIS Faculty Advisory Committee

Member (1999-2001; 2001-2003); Chair, (2001-2002; 2002-03)

Humanities Institute Advisory Committee (2002-04, 05-06)

Immigration Research History Center (IHRC)

Ad Hoc Advisory Committee, 2004;

Advisory Committee, 2005-06; 06-07

Director Search Committee, 2004-05

Life Course Center Advisory Committee (1997-98; 98-99. 99-00; 01-02; 02-03)

Martin Luther King Program Search Committee, Chair (2003-2004)

Graduate and Undergraduate Research Partnership Program Screening, 2002-03

MacArthur Program, Graduate Screening Committee (1998-99; 99-00)

University

President’s Advisory Council on Athletics (ACA), (2005-08)

Committee Chair (2007-08; 08-09)

NCAA and Conference Subcommittee, chair (2005-06; 06-07)

Athletics Department

Graduation Rates Task Force (2005)

Men’s Tennis Coach Search Committee (2006)

Women’s Hockey Search Committee (2008)

Faculty Academic Oversight Integrity Committee (FAOCIA), (2007-08; 08-09)

Game Day Planning Group (2008-09)

Inter-college Multicultural Minor Initiative (2002-04)

Interdisciplinary and Comparative Seminar in Race, Ethnicity and Migration (1998-2001)

NCAA Review Steering Committee (2007-08)

Writing Across the Curriculum, Committee Member (1998-99; 99-00)

Professional

American Sociological Association

Session Organizer, Annual Meetings

Popular Culture (1999)

Poster Sessions (2006)

Sociology of Sport (2008)

Culture Section

Book Award Committee—Chair (1999); Member (2007)

Political Sociology Section

Paper Award Committee (2004)

Section Memberships: Culture; Immigration; Race and Ethnic Relations; Political Sociology; Teaching and Learning

Midwest Sociological Society

Panelist

“Academic Options: ‘Choosing’ an Academic Environment,” Annual Meetings (1999)

“Author Meets Critics: Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (Joane Nagel),” Annual Meetings (2005)

“Author Meets Critics: Who Rules America? (G. William Domhoff), Annual Meetings (2007)

Session Organizer, Annual Meetings

“Masculinities: New Ethnographic Perspectives” (2005)

“Masculinities: Emergent Forms and Contested Meanings” (2005, Discussant)

“Sociology of Sport” (2006, Discussant)

Publications Committee (2006-08)

Chair, 2007-

Sociologists of Minnesota

Session Organizer, Annual Meetings (2001, 2003, 2004)

Executive Board (2001-2004; 2005-08)

President-Elect, Conference Organizer (2005-06)

President (06-07)

Past-President (07-08)

Editorial Boards

Ethnic and Racial Studies (Spring 2003-)

Journal of Sport and Social Issues, (2001- ); Associate Editor, (2003- )

Sociology Across the Borders Book Series, edited by Charles Lemert and Avery Gordon. Duke University Press (2001-2003)

Journal Referee

American Journal of Sociology American Sociological Review

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Journal of Sport and Social Issues Qualitative Sociology

Race, Gender and Class Journal Social Forces Sociological Focus Sociological Forum Sociological Perspectives Social Problems Sociology of Sport Journal The Sociological Quarterly

Other occasional: American Studies, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, National Identities,

Manuscript Reviewer: Blackwell Press; Duke University Press; Harvard University Press; McGraw-Hill; Peacock Publishers; Pine Forge Press; Rutgers University Press; Polity Press; State University of New York Press (SUNY); University of Chicago Press; University of Minnesota Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; University Press of Florida.

Grant Reviewer:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (January 2007)

National Science Foundation (Fall 2003, Fall 2006)

Boards/Consultancy

• Center for the Study of Sport in Society (CSSS), Northeastern University, Academic Advisory Board (Fall 2007-08).

• Tucker Center Research Report, “Developing Physically Active Girls: An Evidence-based Multidisciplinary Approach.” Advisory Panel (December 2007).

• Wilder Foundation, Social Indicators Project, Diversity and Inequalities Advisory Group (Fall 2007).

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Op-Eds

2008. “Beijing 2008: Olympic Nationalism and the Ironies of Gender.” Tucker Center Newsletter, Fall, 2008.

2007. “Modern China Prepares for its World Premiere.” (with Chris Isett). St. Paul Pioneer Press, August 29.

2006. “U.S. Upbeat on Diversity, But Not on Atheists.” (with Penny Edgell and Joseph Gerteis). St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 9.

2005. “Does Class Still Matter in America?” (with Teresa Swartz). St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 19.

In the News / Recent Media Appearances

KARE-11, “Campus Views on New Gopher Stadium,” (September 2008).

WCCO (Channel 4), “Minnesota Class in Beijing,” (with Terri Gruca, July, 2008).

WCCO (Channel 4), “Minnesota Nice” feature and followup. (May 1 and 7, 2008).

Various local media: interviews on trip to China/China and the Olympic Games. (Summer 2007).

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), Midmorning show with Kerri Miller. Hour-long radio call-in show on diversity in America. (July 2007).

National Public Radio (NPR), News and Notes roundtable discussion with Peggy MacIntosh and Tony Cox: “Questioning the Meaning of Race.” (October 19, 2006).

Star Tribune (Minneapolis). Main page editorial: “Studying whites can help race relations.” (September 16, 2006).

Time (magazine). Mini-feature: “The Meaning of White.” Jeninne Lee St. John. (September 11, 2006).

Associated Press. Wire story: “Survey indicates white people have a sense of racial identity.” (September 11, 2006).

Star Tribune (Minneapolis). News story: “’Whiteness Studies’ Researchers at U Look at Racial Identity.” Jean Hopfensperger. (September 11, 2006).

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), Midmorning show with Mary Ann Combs. Hour-long radio call-in on whiteness study. (September 8, 2006).

Various radio call-in shows and interviews on whiteness: KNX 1070 (CBS Radio in Los Angeles); WBBM (Chicago); WBDM (Chicago); WCOJ (Philadelphia); WCCO (Minneapolis); WHUR (Washington, DC); American Urban Radio Network; WFTL (For Lauderdale, Miami, and the Palm Beaches).

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). Morning Edition interview on whiteness study. (September 7, 2006).

: Nation. “The Delusion of Colorblindness.” Extended commentary, Jeninne Lee St. John. (September 7, 2006).

United Press International. “First U.S. survey on ‘whiteness’ conducted.” Wire story, Jonathan Gibian, (September 7, 2006).

Selected Regional Appearances and Contributions

• Tucker Center Lecture Series, “Minnesota Female Olympians: Stories, Experiences, and Inspiration,” Moderator (October 2008).

• University Lutheran Church of Hope, Presentations on Diversity and Atheists, Lecture Series (April 2008)

• Penumbra Theater Panelist, Redshirts Premier (September 2007)

• Wilder Foundation Brown-Bag Presentation (June 2007)

• Race Panel, Science Museum of Minnesota (April 2007)

• Featured Kiosk on White Identity, Science Museum of Minnesota, AAA Touring Exhibit on Race (Spring 2007)

• Pre-Conference Keynote Speaker, Minnesota Recreation and Parks Association, “Recent Trends in Youth Sports Provision: Causes, Consequences, and What We Should Do About Them” (December 2004).

• “Linking Sport to Youth Development: Race, Space and Gender.” Panel Presentation, Tucker Center Distinguished Public Lecture Series, University of Minnesota. (April 2003).

• Consultant, “Stay Alive” Program, the Youth Violence Prevention Project (YVPP) of the Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support. (1999-2000).

• “Stay Alive Project Report, Summer 1999.” With Darren Wheelock. Program evaluation prepared for the City of Minneapolis, Department of Health and Family Support (January 2000).

• National Lawyer’s Guild, Subversive Week. “Teaching Law as Colorblind: What’s the Fear of Race-Consciousness?” Panelist (March 1998).

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